From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hce5l-0001Xy-LT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:58:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3E8vQfJ000592; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:57:26 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3E8r71U028381 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:53:08 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7234964C4E for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:53:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.051 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.051 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.026, TW_JV=0.077] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9KEL8mqXj5uF for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:53:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE33642B3 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:52:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hce04-0003f0-Bp for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:52:52 +0200 Received: from dslb-088-070-004-068.pools.arcor-ip.net ([88.70.4.68]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:52:52 +0200 Received: from marc.blumentritt by dslb-088-070-004-068.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:52:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Marc Blumentritt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo? Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:52:35 +0200 Message-ID: References: <46200F6A.6080408@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-088-070-004-068.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070310) In-Reply-To: <46200F6A.6080408@gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 2b17c8e3-9461-4d80-b2d4-5e4d05d3d821 X-Archives-Hash: 1516532f034d5f183a003beb154a515e b.n. schrieb: > Hi, > > I have looked a bit for this but I've found nothing. > I'd like to create an installable disk ready-to-install on another old, > low specs machine that cannot bear a Gentoo install by itself. > > The logic would be: > - create a chroot environment > - install a subgentoo in it > - emerge the needed sw in the subgentoo, tweak etc. Then create a tarball from it. You could call this tarball a stage4 tarball, because it is a complete system (compared to a stage3 tarball). To create the tarball, leave the chroot an run something like this: tar -cjvpf /stage4.tar.bz2 /path/to/your/chroot Boot your old machine with a gentoo live cd and create partitions (follow the gentoo handbook to chapter 4) and copy your tarball to it. After unpacking the tarball, your system is nearly finished. All you need to do is to install grub (or your personal choice of bootloader) and that's it. For this method you do not need a special install medium. But you have to find a way to copy the tarball to your system. Possible options are scp or on cd (in this case you need a second drive or boot your cd with the option to load the whole image to memory (I d'ont remember the name for it), but since you said you have an old machine, the memory will be small...). Regards Marc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list